Donald Trump is repeating a new insult aimed at his presidential
rival John Kasich, the Ohio governor who
recently announced an alliance with Trump's main rival for
the Republican nomination, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.

Trump is calling out Kasich for winning only one state contest
out of 38 in the primary season, referring to the Ohio governor
as "1 for 38 Kasich" in tweets Monday morning.

"Lyin' Ted Cruz and 1 for 38 Kasich are unable to beat me on
their own so they have to team up (collusion) in a two on one,"
Trump tweeted
on Monday. "Shows weakness!"

He repeated the statistic in a subsequent
tweet: "Shows how weak and desperate Lyin' Ted is when he has
to team up with a guy who openly can't stand him and is only 1
win and 38 losses."

Trump released a statement early Monday morning after Kasich and
Cruz announced their alliance in which he emphasized Kasich's
losing record while blasting both of them for aligning against
him.

"Governor Kasich, who has only won 1 state out of 41, in other
words, he is 1 for 41 and he is not even doing as well as other
candidates who could have stubbornly stayed in the race like him
but chose not to do so," Trump said in the statement, noting that
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who suspended his campaign last
month, had more delegates than Kasich. (The 41 number in this
statement accounts for additional nonstate contests, such as in
Puerto Rico.)

So far, Kasich has won only his home state of Ohio. But he and
Cruz plan to divvy up their resources in at least three of the
remaining nominating states to try to keep Trump from picking up
the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the Republican presidential
nomination. The two will cede ground to each other in the states
to consolidate anti-Trump support.

An overwhelming victory in the New York primary last week helped
Trump move closer to winning the 1,237 delegates needed to secure
the GOP nomination on the first ballot during the Republican
national convention in July.

While Kasich has been openly positioning himself for a contested
convention, Cruz has only recently begun publicly acknowledging
that he will not be able to secure the delegates needed to clinch
the nomination outright.